G’day all
I’ve been using Wings for quite a few years now. It was originally free and on Mac only. Then a Windows version came along, then it went to an annual subscription.
Now it is free again with a new version for mac (Wings 6) and a new one coming for Windows soon. It uses the IOC taxonomy (a bit out of date though).
It does everything I want – and more.
Cheers Steve ===============================
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And of course we all keep field notebooks, into which we first put our sightings, don’t we.
Cheers, Carl Clifford
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Online or local is a key decision and there are no “right or wrong” answers.
Most online systems probably have good backup and security mechanisms and you can access them from any PC (or other device!) in the world if there is an Internet connection. Unfortunately (as we saw with birdinfo and with many other online service in other areas) their commercial model may not work too well and you should always make sure that you have some form of local copy of your data in case they disappear one day. (And this is NOT in any way intended as a criticism of Eremaea, which I think is a great site!) Having the data on your own PC means you are not dependant on the internet (which can be important – I usually take my PC on birding trips and they are often in places without Internet access) but many people fail to back up their own PCs and when the disaster strikes (in my case water spilt in the PC) they lose everything – only I didn’t as I am paranoid about backups. And as I wrote my own system it can give me all the reports I want! So there are pros and cons both ways – of course having data in an online system means that others can benefit from your sightings! One thing I have learnt is not to trust the statistics from online sites – some people tend to record highlights and not report the common stuff so you find that stuff which you see every time at a site gets reported only 50% of the time.
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Apologies for the lack of formatting in the email – the mailing list seems to strip it out. Cheers Tim
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Hi Steve Eremaea works perfectly fine in Firefox, Chrome and IE right now (just checked)… I have never had an issue accessing with any browser. I have been using it for a number of years now and it meets my needs perfectly – it also has the advantage? of contributing sightings to a publicly available database which I know a lot of people use when planning trips etc. As for your questions – not sure for the first one, definately can do the second. While you do require an internet connection to use it is becoming much less of an issue – I have used it on my mobile phone this year in the mallee at Wyperfeld and sitting on an escarpment at Lawn Hill in QLD as a couple of examples
CheersTim
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G’day Alastair
Eremaea seems broken at the moment…actually it works on Safari but not on Firefox. Weird. It’s handy having 2 browsers for checking things like this.
I’ll register and check it out. If I had 30 years of records in it, could I quickly pull out the first arrival dates of Shining Bronze-Cuckoo in our garden each year? What about “How many years since I’ve seen Common Diving-Petrel”?
Can I enter records when not connected? For sure I couldn’t access my records when offline – could I?
Anyway. I’ll check it out.
Cheers Steve
EBird is another online site that is similar.
Cheers Steve
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Steve, When the decision was made 18 months ago to no longer support birdinfo l looked at Wings for Mac (amongst other options) before deciding to go down the Eremaea line…and I haven’t looked back. Having everything available online is probably the key selling point over a desktop system.
Regards Alastair
Sent from my iPad
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